Brooder.



BATENTED OCT. 15, 1907.

J. GOBTZB. VBRQODBR. APPLXGATION FILED 0GT.Z7,11906.

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PATENTE!) OCT. l5, 190'?.

J. GOETZE.

BRDER.

APPLIOATION FILED oo'mv. 190s.

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Appliction illefl Oetelaar To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN Gonrznfa citizen of the United States, residingat Carlstadt, in the county of Bergen and State of 'New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Broeders; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescriptio'noi the invention, such as will enable others skilled in :theort to which it appertains to make and use 'the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference markedthereon, which form a part o this specification. f A l This inventionrelates to a broeder` and is designed to provide a 'brooder that willfacilitate the transfer of young fowl from upper inclosure to a lowerone,

Aand thatean be manipulated to prevent their return to the upperchamber,l and allow a new batch of young fowl to be received into theupper chamber which is warmer, and to keep the tirst batch in the lowercompartinent. .ln this way two broeders are combined into one,considerable space is saved, and a cheap dey vice is the result.

In the drawings, Figure l is avertieal section taken longitudinally, andFig. 2 is a section on line 2, 2, in

' b reoon' of beine'v the u er one. are thesus )ended c PP l strips 15of flexible material, these strips being,r common inbiooders as nowiliade, and suspended loosely from the hover 15 which rests upon therectangular heater 16.

The heating coilsA 16, in the upper chamber, and the coils 17, in thelower chamber, furnish the/heatingr medium in their respectivocompartments, and are connected, on one end, by the pipo connection i8,and on their other ends are each connected, by a. pi po .19, to theheater 20, which is heated by a suitable lamp 2l in the box-likecompartment 22, provided ou one side' of the brooder. An expansion tank23 is inl stalled in the, system which'is illed with water, and

- this apparatus tends lo keep these two compartiments at the propertemperature. A pipo 24 passt-s throughthc floor l2, and the smallopenings 24, in the partition li, allow the necessary ventilation by airpassing through the channel between the floor l2 and the lower floor12h, and communicating, by means of these o oninO'a 24EL and the )i ic24, with the outer chamber p o l l peeiflcetin of Letters-Patent.

Patented oct. 15, foo?.

, met."l stri/s1 No. 340,805.

platform 25 which is pivoted as at 2li, and meente-hes or buttons 27normally hold` the floor or plati'griu horizontal. A handle 28 provideslor the manual manipulation of the platform, and the plaiiorm ispreferably made oi a frame Work on which is stretchml a screen 2i) whichallows ventilation, and is cleaner than a solid platform. A glass plate30 in the iront oi the broeder allows the necessary light to penetrate.

When the device is to be used, the brood is introduced, inthe usualway,fto the compartment i3, and can pass out, when old enough, onto theplatform 25 through the opening 3l., which is covered by flexiblestrips32 to keep out any cold air. Through this openingr they can alsoreturn to the. compartment 13. `When they arrive at au ago where itisdesirable to remove them to another compartment, and it is desired toinstall a new brood in the compartment 13, the platform 25 is tilted tothc dotted outline shown in Fig. l, and the iirst brood oi chickens willtravel down the platform through the opening 33 into the open air. Theplatform is returned to its horizontal position, and when 'the chickensreturn to the broeder, through the doors 33 or 35, they can only occupythe compartment 34, or they eaii go through the opening Sii into the'lower compartment 14.r They are prevented trom re.- luruiug to the uppercompartments, hud in this way two distinct broods 'can occupy the sainebroeder.

This device takes up very little room,' is cheap to make, and is easy ofoperation, does not necessitate the shifting otthe broods, as is nowcommon, and very little labor is entailed in transferring the broodsfrom au upper to a lower compartment;

llaviuf.;rv ihus described my invention, what l claim isz- LA broedercomprisingr a casing havin; a transverse partition. a horizontal flooron one side of the partition to .Form un upper und a lowereoniziurtmeni., a lrectangular heater in nch compartment, connectionbetween thevheuters. means for heating the heaters. iiexible strips suspeuflerl in the upper compartment, the partition havin;r openings fromeu'eii compnrtment, a tilting;I platform arramred on the other side. ofthe partition, the casing having openings therein below the tiltingplatform.

" A liz-coder comprising;- a casing having a transverse -puriiliiu :ihorizontal tioor on one sde'of the partition yto form au aupper und :ilower compartment, the floor being: formed oi' two platforms forming',ra hollow space, the Vpartition having; openings leading frorpf thehollow space.

ln 1e.-;limon,\'.ilnit l claim the foregoing, I have here unto set myhand this 26th dnytrf October 1906.

JOHN GOETZE. Witnesses:

WM: H. CAMirrnnn,

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